Race Night 3rd March

The race night is going to be held on the 3rd March and will be held at Pinder Hall, Cookham. I'll try to explain to you how the race night works and I hope it gets you excited for a night of adrenaline pumping, horse racing, face smiling and yummy food!

The race night consists of 8 races. Each race has 8 horses and 8 jockeys riding them (Simple!). For each race, you can choose the horses you want to win and buy your tote tickets at the tote table. Once the betting is closed, its time to stand back and watch the race will full commentary and cheer on your horse over the finish line.

The total taken on each race will be split 50/50. 50% towards the charity, 50% into the winners pot. The pot is then split between all the winners so look forward to coming away with some winnings on the night!

We will be serving hot supper for all attendees half way through the night, wonderfully catered by Vanessa (my mum). (And for those who have had any food by Vanessa before, you know thats a real good reason to get down on the night!)

The night will cost £6 entry per person which includes your supper.

Each race will be sponsored by a local company, group, individual etc. in return for advertising on the night (on the race screen, on the sponsors table, in leaflets etc) so if you think you maybe able to help with this, please message me!

There will also two bottles of wine up for grabs on each race for the owners of each winning horse and horse jockey. Its just £1 to buy a horse or jockey and then a 1 in 8 chance of winning! These will be sold in advance of the races (if you would like a race sheet and think you can get family/friends or take this to work and get some filled out, i'd be very grateful!)

This night is going to be a real fun evening with a great raffle, a special race where you have the chance of naming the horse anything you like (your wife/partners name? Your own name? anything goes!) a great value bar and supper, so please come and support my last event and help raise vital funds for the Cystic Fibrosis Trust.

For all of you who attended the Mega Music Quiz Night, I hope you had a really good night and hope to see you again at the Race Night! 

Volunteers Needed, Bristol, 11th February

I have kindly been given a day bag packing to fundraise for the CF Trust at Tesco, Kellaway Avenue, Bristol on 11th February 2012.

I will be needing as many volunteers as possible for the day and hoping that together we can raise around £300 for the Trust. I have a few friends who have offered to help but to raise as much cash as possible, we need to be able to cover as many cashouts as we can and be able to give breaks and lunch to those volunteering! If you think you could spare a couple of hours on the Saturday, I would be ever so grateful. 

Please let me know if you'd like to help out and I will get more information to you as soon as I can. Either email me - emily.shimell@gmail.com, comment on this blog, or contact me via my facebook/facebook fundraising groups. Many thanks

2012, 4 months to go!

So its January 2012, meaning only 4 months now until my trek in the Andes! I have set my targets and goals for training including lots of gymming, swimming and hill walking along with further fundraising events for the CF Trust - our Race Night will be held on the 3rd March in Cookham, Berkshire.

If you don't know already, I am climbing to over 15,000 ft in the Andes, a 6 day trek for up to 8 hours a day, through mountain passes, Peruvian forests and villages, to the top of Mount Hatun Paso and finally to Macchu Pichu. I aim to raise £4,000 for the charity and hope that you can support my fundraising by sparing any pennies you may have and sponsoring my trek! You can do this by visiting www.virginmoneygiving.com/EmilyShimellForCF or via the link at the top of this blog.

I greatly appreciate every penny and hope that we can all work together to see off CF.